categorization

English

Alternative forms

• (mainly British) categorisation

Etymology

From categorize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkæt.ə.ɡɚ.əˈzeɪ.ʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæt.ə.ɡər.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Noun

categorization (countable and uncountable, plural categorizations)

1. A group of things arranged by category; a classification.
2. The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
   • 2013 April 29, James Gleick, “Wikipedia's Women Problem”, in New York Review of Books:

     It’s fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

Derived terms

• autocategorization
• decategorization
• miscategorization
• overcategorization
• recategorization
• subcategorization
• supercategorization

 

Related terms

• category
• categorize

Translations

the process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes

• Basque: kategorizazio
• Catalan: categorització f
• Czech: kategorizace f, třídění (cs) n, klasifikace (cs) f
• Dutch: categoriseren (nl) n
• Finnish: luokittelu (fi)
• French: catégorisation (fr) f
• Galician: categorización f
• German: Kategorisierung (de) f
• Greek: κατηγοριοποίηση (el) f (katigoriopoíisi), ταξινόμηση (el) f (taxinómisi), κατάταξη (el) f (katátaxi)
• Italian: categorizzazione (it) f
• Malayalam: വർഗ്ഗീകരണം (vaṟggīkaraṇaṁ)
• Maori: whakarōpūtanga
• Polish: kategoryzacja (pl) f, klasyfikacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: categorização (pt) f
• Romanian: categorisire (ro)
• Russian: категоризация (ru) f (kategorizacija)
• Spanish: categorización (es) f
• Yoruba: ìpínsísọ̀rí